The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-30

fatally lUJLTtu, anu i've Olhbtb GUS
tanned severe injuries. In Booths mil
Maggie Van Site and Rachel Levi had
their skulls fractured, and two others
were badly injured.
"A freight train on the Utah
Northern Railroad broke ID two in
Beaver canyon on the 22d, and Is cars
ran down grade for severed miles, then
jumped the track and were wrecked.
The conductor, Lowery, was fatally
injured. BY a collision between freight
and ore trains on the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore and Western Railroad, near
Bunnell's Siding, Michigan, on the
22d, two engines and live hrs were
wrecked. The damage is estimated at
$50, 000.
The latest reports of the lorna
does In Kansas, Arkansas and Mis-
souri,, on the evening of the 2lst,
show that the damage to property and
loss of life were greater than at first
supposed The town of Prescott,
Kansas, was entirely destroyed and,
as far as known, fifteen persons were
killed. Seventeen persons are known
to have been killed IN the county, and
fifty severely injured. Six persons
were killed neal the towns of Hume
and Sprague, in MsssonTi, and a num-
Der were injured. AT GAINESVILLE, Ar
kansas, six PERSONS were killed. AT
Shell City, Missouri, a man was killed
and his wife and child. A tornado
at Hazleton, Indiana, on the evening
of the 22d, did great damage to prop
erty, and killed two men, another
man being fatally injured. A tornado
swept over part of Mississippi on the
evening of the 22d. at Natchez
many dwellings were unroofed. The
whole front of the City Hospital was
destroyed. as vas also the dormitory
of the Baptist College. In Vidalia
the Methodist Church, engine house,
and some smaller buildings were
blown down. No lives were lost.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has made an order ~suspending
the fourth section of the law for 70
days, subject to revocation, and with a
proviso that intermediate rates shall be
raised above those in force on April
20. This applies to the Northern
Pacific, Southern Pacific. Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe, and st. Louis
and San Francisco Lines.
The total exports from the United
States during the IL months which
ended March 31st amounted in value
to $74l ,44S, 078, against $500, yG4. 1872
during the preceding II months. The
imports for the year ending March 31st
were in value 1918, 097 ,213, against
$614, T83, 1853 during the II months
which ended March 3lst, 1886.
The water in the river at Montreal
was rising on the evening of the oath.
The channel between st. IIelen's island
and the South Shore is clear OF ice.
The ice is piled very high between the
Longuail and BoucberVille islands.
Two funerals took place in boats in
Grifintown on the oath. The distress
among some of the poor families in the
submerged districts is very great and
many appeals for bread and other edi-
bles were made on the oath.
-Cajam, the Zagui. was shot dead
near Guaymas by the Mexican authori-
ties on the 23d. - despatch from the
City of Mexico says that Lieutenant
Colonel SunoZ, of the Eighth Battalion,
and NJ. M. Zavalla, Musical Director
attached to the command, fought a
duel. AT the word both fired at once,
and both fell dead. Albert Turner,
colored, has been arrested in Louisville
for committing a murderous assault
upon Jennie Bowman, servant girl in a
house which he was TObbing on the
morning of the 21st. The girl vas the
only person in the house, and when
she discovered him In n of the
rooms she struck him on the head with
a glass, he beating her with a poker at
the same time. He confessed his guilt.
The girl is in a critical condition, but
may possibly recover.
Mrs. Annie Kelly and Mrs. Ellen
Barrett was arrested in New York on
the evening of the 23d for counterfeit
ing silver coin. The officers caught
the women at their work and captured
thirteen plaster of Paris moulds, files,
melting kettles, metal and one hundred
ana sixty-eight counterfeit dollars.
The women are sisters, and Il OF
them, Mrs. Kelly, Is the wife of a
counterfeiter. They were held on the
25th in 5000 bal each. James Nixon.
an old man, living alone near Humans
vile, in the western part of Penna.,
has been robbed of $500 in cash and
Government securities which he had
secreted in his house Recently he was
decoyed from his home by two men,
who represented that they were real
estate spectators, and during his alb
.sence a confederate entered the house
and secured the treasure. Nixon did
not discover his loss until the 18th.
The store of Cleveland, Brown u Co.,
dealers in neckwear, on Gus street,
Boston, was entered on the oath by
burglars, who carried away over $1,000
worth of stock. The goods were taken
away in broad daylight.
Three young men, Charles Mercau,
August Rousseau and Joseph Huard,
were drowned at st. Romerald, Quebec,
on the path. by the upsetting of a boat.
While Hamln Miller was driving
across the Auglaize river. in Allen
county, Ohio, on the evening OF the
23d, the horses became unmanagea6le
and Miller and his wife and child were
thrown into the water. Mrs. Miller
and the child were drowned, as were
also the horses, and Miller came near
losing his life.
The Vosburgh Manufacturing
Company's building, Nos. 273 to Isl
State Street, Brooklyn, was destroyed
by fire on the evening of the 25th, with
the stock and machinery. The loss is
about 5000, 600, nearly covered by in
surance. Two hundred persons are
thrown out of work. A ave-story brick
building in Chicago, occupied by
Schienewend & Lee, stereotypers and
wholesale dealers In printers materials,
was burned on the evening of the 10th.
The loss is about Sl50,000 on stock,
insured for $4,000, and S25, 900 on
building, insured for $4,000.
Policeman j. b. Mcmahon,
wounded in the leg by the Anarchist
bomb at the Haymarket riot in
Chicago a year ago, is not ex-
pected to recover. Injury to a bone
prevented him from resuming bis du-
ties, and four weeks ago an OPP
Grafton was performed without effect.
A second operation was performed a
few days ago, and the patient has been
sinking aver since Albert Turner. ar